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- Reviewed on: 11/13/2002
- Updated on: 11/20/2002
- Released on: 06/01/2002
The KV-27FS200 boasts numerous performance features, which show up in its picture. The most important is the 16:9 Enhanced mode, which delivers the full resolution of enhanced-for-wide-screen DVD. Those few differences, along with a good color decoder and reasonable factory setup, deliver big improvements in picture quality. In the original Austin Powers movie, the dancer with the mod raincoat of multicolored panels offers a good color test. On this TV, the yellow panel looked right, the red panel was bright but not blurry, and the black panel was appropriately shiny for vinyl, but there was still detail in the shadows.
Generally, you have to get to the 27-inch screen size before you see great performance in a TV set, and this unit performs very well. We found it online for about $499. Its only competition is from other Sonys, namely, the less expensive KV-27FS100, which, for about $50 less, offers the same performance but not a two-tuner picture-in-picture (PIP).
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